Politics Counts: Two Big States’ Big Split on Immigration

By

Dante Chinni

Aug 23, 2013 2:05 pm ET

In the current immigration debate, California and Texas look like very similar terrain. The two electoral behemoths are both “border states” familiar with the issue. And in both Hispanics make up the exact same percentage of the population according to the latest Census numbers: 38.2%.

And yet as the debate continues the issue is starting to play out very differently in them.

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